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Moralzarzal Health Center
Moralzarzal Health Center
Avenida Salvador Sanchez Frascuelo, Moralzarzal, Spain
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Moralzarzal Health Center
Avenida Salvador Sanchez Frascuelo, Moralzarzal, Spain
Firm
YEAR
2007
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
As a
condition, a basic Health center programme, very precise in surfaces and
distribution. Besides, at the competition time, an open impersonal place, a no
man’s land between single-family houses and old residential blocks on the
“outskirts” of the village, under the presence, familiar and threatening at the
same time, of the mountains. The plot, a residual corner, irregular and with no
defined orientation with respect to the surroundings.
Then… “she” came. Almost
touching the plot, an immense circular mass, with a big retractable dome and
shops in the ground floor: the bullring. As a giant surrounded by dwarfs, as
the usual fat woman who sits next to you on the bus, occupying her seat and
yours. With the project already finished, there was nothing left to do but
bearing ourselves as well as possible.
Due to the irregular shape of the plot and (in the
beginning) scale of the area, we decided to fragment the building in three
specialized blocks: emergencies, surgeries and administration.
That is, three prisms of different size separated by
courtyards and the staircase. This way, the programme becomes clearly visible
making easier the use of the building by patients and professionals.
This also allows the interior to open through big
windows and keep in touch with the exterior and the views. At the same time,
each block got a more “domestic” scale and integrates itself naturally in the
surroundings. Besides, the residual areas of the plot were incorporated in the
public space, making it wider and better.
condition, a basic Health center programme, very precise in surfaces and
distribution. Besides, at the competition time, an open impersonal place, a no
man’s land between single-family houses and old residential blocks on the
“outskirts” of the village, under the presence, familiar and threatening at the
same time, of the mountains. The plot, a residual corner, irregular and with no
defined orientation with respect to the surroundings.
Then… “she” came. Almost
touching the plot, an immense circular mass, with a big retractable dome and
shops in the ground floor: the bullring. As a giant surrounded by dwarfs, as
the usual fat woman who sits next to you on the bus, occupying her seat and
yours. With the project already finished, there was nothing left to do but
bearing ourselves as well as possible.
Due to the irregular shape of the plot and (in the
beginning) scale of the area, we decided to fragment the building in three
specialized blocks: emergencies, surgeries and administration.
That is, three prisms of different size separated by
courtyards and the staircase. This way, the programme becomes clearly visible
making easier the use of the building by patients and professionals.
This also allows the interior to open through big
windows and keep in touch with the exterior and the views. At the same time,
each block got a more “domestic” scale and integrates itself naturally in the
surroundings. Besides, the residual areas of the plot were incorporated in the
public space, making it wider and better.
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